Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-16
STIRRING UP THE GREASERS.
A Package OF Circulars Which is Ca1cu-
to Make Trouble With tho Mexicans.

A Package Of Circulars Which is Calcu-
to Make Trouble With the Mexicans-
Ell PAso, Texas, July ia package OF
circulars received here yesterday morning
is intended to stir up a feeling against the
Mexicans. The circulars began:
Official bulletin No. Headquarters
American and Northern Mexican NJ Il A.
D. Co., New York, July 1, 1897. Under
this announcement appears in glaring type
the following: Americans-Read, read ana
act, the latest Mexican outrage on an
American and his wife and daughter have
Just returned from q Mexican dungeon,
found their companion, a small pot black
nole, Paso del Norte, Mexico. Then
follows a telegram from Wichita,
Kansas, June is, stating that A.
Bird, of New York, and an opera troupe,
which he Was managing, had been thrown
into Jail at Paso del Norte and confined for
a long time four of the company dying
from smallpox. The bulletin closes with
this language: "The above Associated
Press telegram was published in the Dai y
Press, Wednesday June 20. but closely fol-
lowed by a
SPECIAL TELEGRAM FROM WASHINGTON,
with the consoling information that the
State Department 'pooh-hoed' at this
last reported Mexican outrage. Since the
advent OF the present Democratic admin
istration a half hundred cases OF false i'm
prisonment and murder OF American citl-
zers in seri-barbaric Mexico. accompanied
by sworn statements OF many witnesses,
have been officially reported to the State
Department at Washington. and up to
this moment no indemnity or no repara-
tion no satisfaction whatever has been de-
manded OF Mexico by our Government. 1t
is now time for all true Americans to rise
in their might and call ''halt" to the
Greaser of Mexico, and again administer
the lesson of 1SS4-'S5 and let this lesson
be one that will never have it's scar effaced
nor its efficacy questioned"
TSigned1 By ORDER EXECUTIVE Com.
When the Wichita dispatch was first pub
lished the Mayor Of the
PROVINCE OF PAso DEL NoRTE
and Con- ul Brigham were interviewed and
both pronounced the Bird story malicious
lie. The grain Of truth in this falsehood ls
this: Last January company OF young
men from the City OF Mexico, calling
themselves s.spanish Students" arrived
after tour through Mexico. They were
under a contract to play at Paso del Norte.
In the evening set for the performance an
udience assembled but owing to some dis
agreement in payment the students re-
fused to sing and according to the Mexican
statute were thrown into Jail. member
of the co i,panv named Saurez, who is now
employed in a store in Pasn del Norte and
resides in Ell Paso, was interviewed to-day
and said: "We were in Jail about an hour
when
ALL WERE LIBERATED
on bail, a wealthy Spaniard going on our
bonds. The troupe consisted ofnine Span
| iards and five Mexicans, but no Americans
Two days after our imprisonment the en-
tire troupe performed in FL Paso and later
in Paso del N.rte, where the company
broke mp, six OF the spaniards going te
California and the rest to Denver. The re
mainder of the compaty, except myself
went back to the City of Mexico. No on